From 21-game starter at quarterback for the Browns in 2010-11 to Captain Clipboard in 2012.

McCoy is worth remembering now, however, because the Browns play the Steelers on Sunday, and Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will not play.

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Steelers backup quarterback Byron Leftwich will not play.

Steelers backup backup quarterback Charlie Batch? He'll not only play, he'll start. If Batch gets hurt? Well, let's just say that if you have Bubby Brister's phone number, the Steelers would like to hear from you.

Which brings us back to backup McCoy, who -- and I offer this only as a public service -- has a career passer rating of 74.5, compared to Brandon Weeden's 70.3.

Three questions:

Would McCoy be the perfect backup quarterback for the Steelers? Short answer: yes.

Would the Browns ever consider trading McCoy to a division rival? Short answer: Hmmmm.

Have the Browns kept McCoy as their backup quarterback because they aren't completely sold on Weeden? Short answer: I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

Now for the longer answers.

Yes, McCoy would be the perfect backup quarterback for the Steelers, or any contending team with an offense as talented as Pittsburgh's. As the Browns' starter, McCoy had no talent around him. With the Steelers, he'd be engulfed by talent.

Given an offensive line, a running game and receivers who can actually catch the ball, McCoy could be a solid NFL quarterback while filling in for an injured starter.

It won't happen this year because the NFL trade deadline has passed. But if nothing else, the injury to Roethlisberger, and the numerous other starting quarterbacks in the league who have missed time with concussions this season, should help re-emphasize the need for having a quality backup quarterback, particularly for a playoff-caliber team -- which the Browns are not.

That, in turn, could add value to McCoy as a potential trade chip for the Browns. We're talking a draft pick, which might not sound like much, but when you're trying to build a team, you need all the draft picks you can get. Maybe the Browns could parlay McCoy into a third-round pick, matching the one they used when they acquired him.

Even a fourth- or fifth-rounder would be a good return, because a rebuilding team can never have too many draft picks.

Would the Browns ever consider trading McCoy to the Steelers? For the right price, sure, why not? If the Browns are scared of trading McCoy to the Steelers, maybe the Browns have the wrong guy starting at quarterback.

That, of course, is a question still to be answered this year. Is Weeden, who is less than a year away from his 30th birthday, the Browns' future? Or when the coaching staff and the administration who drafted him are gone after this season, does the new regime start over with a new, and younger, quarterback?

Does the 25-year-old McCoy fit anywhere into that equation? If not, why not cash him in for a draft pick and a clipboard to be named later?

-- Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub hit Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh in the foot with his groin during a game on Thanksgiving Day.

The NFL plans to review the incident to determine whether Suh should be disciplined.

Serial stomper Suh has a history of plundering and pillaging offensive lines and linemen, so the league is going to investigate whether Schaub's attack with his groin on Suh's foot might instead have been a case of Suh intentionally kicking Schaub.

The league will likely take into consideration the rap sheet of Suh (pronounced: "What's your problem, man?"), and the fact that as of late Saturday night Schaub was still on all fours on the 50-yard line of darkened Ford Field.

-- You can pretty much ignore that NCAA Division III-record 138-point game by Jack Taylor in Grinnell College's 179-104 win over Faith Baptist Bible College on Tuesday. It was apparently a carefully orchestrated stunt by Grinnell coach David Arseneault, who has done this sort of thing before.

According to Deadspin, this is the third time a player on Arseneault's team has set the Division III scoring record. In 1998, a Grinnell player scored 77 points, which was the record until last year, when a Grinnell player broke it with 89 points. Now Taylor shattered that mark with his 138-point game.

Simply put, Arseneault picks a weak team on the Grinnell schedule, then goes for the record by letting the other team score as quickly as possible -- one Faith Baptist player in the game had 70 points, virtually all of them coming on layups -- and then having all the Grinnell players continuously feed the player Arseneault designates as the one who will go for the record.

Thus, you had Taylor, who Deadspin said rarely got back on defense and simply waited for his next shot, taking 108 shots. Nobody else on his team took more than six. Taylor attempted 71 three-point field goals. Nobody else attempted more than two. Taylor had zero assists and three rebounds, which, according to Deadspin, were all rebounds of his own misses.

Faith Baptist Bible College, enrollment 330, is not in the NCAA. It is a Division II school in the National Christian College Athletic Association.

The game, inexplicably, was considered an exhibition game for Faith Baptist, but a regular-season game for Grinnell, which nevertheless used 20 players in the game. The game was a blowout from start to finish, and no Grinnell player played more than 15 minutes except one -- Taylor played 36 minutes, four shy of playing the entire game, although in reality this was not a game at all.

This was not even sport.

-- The real highlight of Thanksgiving Day came in the Patriots' blowout win over the Jets, when Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez fumbled, which was returned for a touchdown by the Patriots, after he ran full speed and was flattened when he smacked into the rear end of one of his own offensive linemen.

I believe this play is called "a reverse pancake."

Weak of the week

Jets coach Rex Ryan said he was prepared to play Tim Tebow at quarterback Thursday, if necessary, even though Tebow had two broken ribs, which were apparently sore enough that Tebow was taken off the special teams on which he normally plays.

No word on whether Tebow suffered the injury -- which the Jets didn't announce until after the game -- by running into the rear end of one of his offensive linemen during a practice earlier in the week.